Triffid from the Burbs

[Tandum]

Haven't pulled out the RGB filters in almost 12 months.
But M20 is up and I could not resist it, I love it.

16 x 400 sec Lum bin x 1, 6 x 120 sec RGB bin x2

12" GSO newt, atik 11000.

Yes it was covered in gradients etc, I hammered it flat :) ...

[RobF]

Nice one Robin. Up there with my fav's too. Glad to see some more from the 12 - was wondering how it was going. Should be very happy cruising on the EQ8 too!

[alpal]

Nice job - I'll have to do one myself it the weather clears.

[strongmanmike]

Some lovely colours there Robin, a fine Trifid and you look to have handled the gradients well :thumbsup:

Mike

[Shiraz]

very tidy M20 Robin - looks like a successful system. regards ray

[Tandum]

I was having power and usb issues which where a real pain to pin down Rob, but it looks like I got all the gremlins out. Next mountain to climb is squeezing it all in the Golf for astrofest and making it go again when I get there :)


Yes raining again this week here too. When will it end ...


Lost some of the blue nebula Mike, but that's the price you pay I guess.


Cheers Ray. It seems to work ok but the corrector ended up costing more than the scope :rolleyes:

[ozstronomer]

Nice one Robin, plenty of detail.

Looks like the EQ8 is ticking along nicely

Geoff

[Tandum]

After getting eqmod going, it was almost a straight swap from the eq6 Geoff. Seems to do what I want it to :)

[astronobob]

Nice triffid Robin, Awesome gear. :thumbsup:

[Ross G]

Great looking photo Robin.

Detailed and so sharp.


Ross.

[Larryp]

Very nice, Robin :thumbsup:

[Paul Haese]

Nice round stars Robin. How did the EQ8 guide? Thoughts?

The colour is ok but the image is a bit clipped. Plenty more data in there.

[Tandum]

Cheers guys, I try and snap the old triffid every year, I like the colours I guess.

This would be normal guiding for me Paul. That's with an OAG at about 1.2meters with the qhy5LII, so tiny pixels. 2sec exposures seems to work best. I didn't want to push the image too hard or the gradients would come back :) Focus is the real issue with the steel tubed newt. You really need to watch it as it shifts a fair bit during the night.

[Paul Haese]

Focusmax is your friend then Robin.

[Tandum]

Yeah, I got a motor, bracket and coupler to go on it but have been spending way too much time playing with this thing :)

[RickS]

How does the image look in full res, Robin? Did you pick up the stellar jets?

Look forward to seeing all these EQ8s in action at Astrofest :thumbsup:

I managed to catch a couple of hours of clearish skies last night to test my final setup for Astrofest. Now it's guaranteed to work perfectly on the first night :lol:

Cheers,
Rick.

[Tandum]

Didn't bother looking Rick but I did find my usb issues. The qhy5 would randomly switch to a boxed crosshatched pattern. I installed all new cables, didn't fix it. Finally found it didn't like my 4 port pci usb card in the pc? Plug it into one of the on board pc ports and it's fixed. go figure ...

I better get things setup on a tripod and laptop myself. Haven't done that with this combo yet.